Naval Maintenance Point

[cedar ermine]

Hi, I created a vanilla like vehicle station, this mod is still in the works. This mod allows you to build a station at your base and players can spawn boats at the Maintenance Point. I used for showcase the RHIB mod by "thespacestrider"

by using a custom label, you can add and remove as server owner the boats from this station. As soon as the mod is published I will add a tutorial how to do it for server owners.

If you have any recommendations or feedback please let me know. I highly appreciate it

EASY SETUP

required basic knowledge of Enfusion Workbench

Add

VEHICLE_BOAT

as Authored Label in Authored Labels (SCR_EditableVehicleComponent) in the prefab of your choice

Use the picture down below for visual help

If the Prefab has this label it will show up at the Maintenance Point.

Disclaimer:
Boat in Picture by TheSpaceStrider - RHIB Mod:
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5994614FB5AD35C2-RHIB

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65B92E37083CA469-BoatMaintenancePoint

[copper belfry]

@rustic terrace

[heady dock]

Do you knwo if it possible to delete the terrain verification where you can only spawn the boat on ground ?

like spawn the boat in water is not possible

[cedar ermine]

A friend is working on that, we don't know yet. If we found something out we will let you know

[deft steppe]

Is it on workshop already?

[atomic ledge]

what's working - 1 string in 1 file? 😄

[cedar ermine]

Soon, didn't had time to finish it.

[cedar ermine]

Wdym?

[wise basin]

Very cool, maybe construct something like wooden planks on barrels for the dock part in the water? This way it would look more realistic, instead of just floating planks

[cedar ermine]

There are poles under the wood plankes but cool idea maybe I add that too 👍

[atomic ledge]

for spawn vehicles on the water, u're need change 1 script with 1 string

I'll look at the file name later.

[atomic ledge]

SCR_CampaignBuildingPlacingObstructionEditorComponent.CheckVehiclePosition

[atomic ledge]

here's validate for water height

[cedar ermine]

@atomic ledge thank you very much! I'll check that later 🫡

[wise basin]

Sorry, did not noticed this. 🙂 Might be easier to place the dock over the water, when floating on barrels?

[sonic sable]

hey, what's up ? @cedar ermine is it on workshop ?

[cedar ermine]

Yes I launched it yesterday

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/65B92E37083CA469-BoatMaintenancePoint

[cedar ermine]

EASY SETUP

required basic knowledge of Enfusion Workbench

Add

VEHICLE_BOAT

as Authored Label in Authored Labels (SCR_EditableVehicleComponent) in the prefab of your choice

Use the picture down below for visual help

If the Prefab has this label it will show up at the Maintenance Point.

Disclaimer:
Boat in Picture by TheSpaceStrider - RHIB Mod:
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5994614FB5AD35C2-RHIB

[sonic sable]

Let’s gooooooo !

[deft steppe]

are there any Russian boats on workshop? Wonder what should I add them :p

[heady dock]

Hy do you succesfully retreive the spawn on water limitation ?

[cedar ermine]

Will come in the next update bc I'm kinda new to scripting 🙃

[wary grove]

Hey @cedar ermine

Hopefully you could help me out.
What am i missing here? Vehicle has the label but doesnt show up in the Boat Maintenance Point

[solid jackal]

I found that this mod has the scripts that make building the service point and placing boats on water possible:

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/64750A0EC433AEE7-R4GEBetterBuilder

At a later stage I will look at which of those scripts archieves it.

[cedar ermine]

i updated the mod, water placement is now enabled.

thx to everyone who helped or gave feedback ❤️

[narrow barn]

Hey man,are you the guy that made this?https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/660A84101B0473B9-DeployableCargoForSkyhook

[subtle spear]

He is✌️

[cedar ermine]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1404165180325232752

[harsh sable]

Thanks for making this mod, we have been using it on the Dutch Feniks server for a while now, and its great!

recently I went about adding this boat
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/999000999BE11000-Usableboats
by (the mysterious) Bell1

It's not yet spawnable as it stands, but i added the required prefabs and added it to the required factions
Thing i ran into was the the preview model would not be placeable (stay turned red)

i ended up tracking this down to the CheckVehiclePosition call in SCR_CampaignBuildingPlacingObstructionEditorComponent

    override bool CheckVehiclePosition()
    {
        vector outBoundMin, outBoundMax;
        m_PreviewEnt.GetPreviewBounds(outBoundMin, outBoundMax);
        outBoundMin[1] = HEIGHT_ABOVE_GROUND_VEHICLE_BUFFER; // <------ This is the problematic call

        //  The boat has a outBoundMax[1] (the top of the bounding box) of only .25
        HEIGHT_ABOVE_GROUND_VEHICLE_BUFFER has a value of .8

        // Therefore the QueryEntitiesByOBB check fails without calling EvaluateBlockingEntity
        // I assume this happens because the bounding box being flipped/inverted

        outBoundMin[0] = outBoundMin[0] * BOUNDING_BOX_VEHICLE_FACTOR;
        outBoundMin[2] = outBoundMin[2] * BOUNDING_BOX_VEHICLE_FACTOR;

        // Adding this section fixed the spawning issue, might cause issues with props overhead of the spawned vehicle
        if(outBoundMin[1] > outBoundMax[1]){
            Print("[DF_CampaignBuildingPlacingObstructionEditorComponent] Fixing OBB bounds for vehicle spawning (should only effect ZODIAC)");
            outBoundMax[1] = outBoundMin[1] + HEIGHT_ABOVE_GROUND_VEHICLE_BUFFER;
        }


        // the problematic call
        // No check for the nearby previews as we don't want to allow player to build a cliping compositions
        if (!world.QueryEntitiesByOBB(outBoundMin, outBoundMax, transform, EvaluateBlockingEntity))
            return false;

        return world.TracePosition(paramOBB, EvaluateBlockingEntity) > 0;
    }

Abridged version of the code (do not copy-paste)

I can't figure out where to contact the mod creator, you might want to implement this, or maybe he sees it here.
Regardless, t'was a very annoying bug, and i hope it helps whomever this concerns

[ivory crypt]

https://discord.gg/dac33dTN

[foggy thorn]

Hey @cedar ermine! Love this. Acutally curious, is there any decent guide out there on how to design prefabs? Would love to work on some myself.

[cedar ermine]

@dusty cliff has some helpful Videos on Youtube but there's also https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/Arma-Reforger-Samples

most stuff I learned from other mods and looked what they changed to get it to work. I tried to adjust it to fit my intentions and concepts, I learned from that

In #enfusion_model are also talented members that can help u

[young snow]

I’ll have to test this out. How big did you make the radius? I got a destroyer with 96 tomahawk missiles that will need to be refilled 😅